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• s  preceding and preparing for something
  preparatory steps

• In most preparatory schools yearly changes consist of a few new faces on the faculty and perhaps some broken ground for a building.
• The preparatory sessions will culminate in a Major Economies Forum Leaders' meeting, which Prime Minister Berlusconi has agreed to host in La Maddalena, Italy, in July 2009.
• In the minutes of a preparatory meeting of Stasi officials, dated May 4, 1988, the Stasi notes discussions that it was having with the head of the West German company that was .

• preparative
• propaedeutic

News & Articles

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• Little ones lead class for a day at Valley Preparatory School
  At Valley Preparatory School in Redlands, five of the 12 children in Tammy Schmidt's preschool class were chosen to be teacher for a day during T Week.
  June 12, 2013 - Redlands Daily Facts
• Gazette.Net: New school building for Olney Adventist Preparatory School
  Olney Adventist Preparatory School has begun construction on a $2.5 million project to build a permanent school building.
  June 12, 2013 - Gazette.net
• PRINCETON: Program graduates class of special scholars
  The Princeton University Preparatory Program graduated its 10th class on Wednesday, celebrating what is perhaps its most accomplished group yet.
  June 12, 2013 - The Princeton Packet

Quotes

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• Vladimir Putin in USA Today
  So far as the financial resources for carrying out the necessary preparatory work, they've already been allocated and they won't be reduced,Putin said in a nationally televised question-and-answer session.
• Martin Bain in Reuters.uk
  Rangers chief executive Martin Bain told their Web site: "We are really disappointed that despite all the preparatory work that was done by ourselves and the British Ambassador and, the fact there was a special security delegate appointed to this...
• Zhang Yimou in 940 News
  Every person involved in the preparatory work signed an agreement,Zhang said. "All the confidentiality provisions are from the IOC with some Chinese regulation added. It is a kind of responsibility we have to shoulder."